An Archaeology Of Industry And Inter-Ethnic Dynamics

科学家们将进行考古和民族历史研究，以探索19世纪美国西南部工业与叛乱之间的关系。该项目调查了反叛分子破坏大规模工业运营背后的文化因素，这些叛乱分子反对美国最近吞并该地区。先前对该地区工业时代劳动力的考古研究倾向于剖析暴力阶级冲突的时刻，而美国各地的工业研究通常致力于更普遍地完善这一时期的抵抗类型。该项目通过解决叛乱动机的问题，将工业运作的架构作为过程中的参与者，塑造原材料消耗、人力资源使用和工业废物处理的模式，开辟了新的领域。相关的实地和实验室研究将为后代和当地社区的参与创造机会，鼓励人类学知识的共同生产，丰富学生参与者的教育。该项目将成为在服务不足的学生群体中采用高影响力实践的典范，包括来自西班牙裔服务机构的本科生与当地各种老年人和高中生进行合作研究。在工厂运营的17年里，工人们在这里碾磨了该地区的大部分小麦，并生产了大量的威士忌。这项工作在该地区产生了文化、自然和经济上的连锁反应，这可能是反对派选择摧毁该遗址的原因之一。研究人员将通过调查遗址及其周边地区，分析在相关挖掘中发现的工业、建筑和其他材料，并开展建筑能量学方面的相关实验，努力提高对该组织努力的人类学和历史学理解。他们将回答有关人力和自然资源在建筑和现场日常运营中使用的程度的问题，比较与附近农业，牧场和工业设备相关的劳动力，水和木材消耗的相对数量。该项目汇集了历史考古学、实验考古学和民族历史学的方法和分析技术，以描述最有可能产生资源紧张和加剧地方不平等的操作方面。在此过程中，该项目将开发出一种新的方法，考古学家和其他研究人员可以通过这种方法来了解美国西南部工业与叛乱之间的关系。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Scientists will conduct archaeological and ethnohistorical research to explore the relationship between industry and rebellion in the nineteenth-century American Southwest. The project investigates the cultural factors behind the destruction of a massive industrial operation at the hands of insurgents opposed to the recent annexation of the region by the United States. Previous archaeological studies of industrial-era labor in the region tend to anatomize moments of violent class conflict, while industrial studies across the United States typically work to refine typologies of resistance for the period more generally. This project breaks new ground by addressing the question of insurgent motivation, approaching the architecture of the industrial operation as an actor in the process, shaping patterns of raw materials consumption, human resource use, and industrial waste disposal. Associated field and laboratory research will create opportunities for descendant and local community engagement, encouraging the co-production of anthropological knowledge and enriching the education of student participants. The project will serve as a model for the employment of High Impact Practices among underserved student populations by including undergraduate students from a Hispanic Serving Institution in collaborative research with various local elders and high school students. Laborers at the industrial operation site milled much of the region’s wheat and manufactured enormous volumes of whiskey during the seventeen years the site was in operation. That work produced cultural, natural, and economic ripple effects in the region that may have played some role in the site’s selection for destruction by rebels. Researchers will work to improve anthropological and historical understandings of the outfit’s efforts by surveying the site and its surrounds, analyzing industrial, architectural, and other materials recovered in associated excavation, and by carrying out relevant experiments in architectural energetics. They will address questions regarding the degree to which human and natural resources were used in construction and day-to-day operations at the site, comparing the relative volumes of labor, water, and wood consumed in relation to those of nearby farming, ranching, and industrial outfits as indicated by documentary evidence. The project brings together the methodological and analytical techniques of historical archaeology, experimental archaeology, and ethnohistory to describe aspects of the operation likeliest to produce resource strain and exacerbate local inequalities. In the process, the project will develop a new method by which archaeologists and other researchers may come to understand the relationship between industry and rebellion in the American Southwest.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.